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Berbaum, Michael L.; Moreland, Richard L. – Child Development, 1985
Estimates confluence model of intellectual development for a within-family sample of 321 children from 101 transracial adoptive families. Mental ages of children and their parents and birth or adoption intervals were used in a nonlinear least-squares estimation procedure to obtain children's predicted mental ages. Results suggest efficiency of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Children, Cognitive Development, Family Influence
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Metzl, Marilyn Newman – Child Development, 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention